Man & Woman found dead in Mayo

Looking like a murder suicide attempt.
Man woman dead and survivor has head injury.

The flying mouse wrote: »

listen mate why bother posting in it if your not interested, If no one is interested in it then it will just slowly fade away, no big deal.

My point is you literally copied an article and added in a few sad faces and a 'ah it's terrible'. If you perhaps wanted to start a discussion on the number of instances of familcide in Ireland or mental health disorders you might have gotten some positive feedback and engagement. However you went down the route of what someone referred to earlier as 'grief porn'.

Your Face wrote:

Ffs. More tragedy porn.

"Ah sure isn't it awful" on loop.

tomwaterford wrote: »

Unless it involves midget grannies?








Sad tale though OP.... Of which is too common in Ireland

Is it any more common than any other country?

I would still hazard a guess that Ireland is a relatively safe country compared to most.

Sad story btw, a similar thing happened up here a couple of years ago.

NIMAN wrote: »

Is it any more common than any other country?

I would still hazard a guess that Ireland is a relatively safe country compared to most.

Sad story btw, a similar thing happened up here a couple of years ago.

These kinds of stories are nothing to do with safety. Usually it's a child (almost always male) who's been struggling with mental illness for many years and may or may not have been abused by his parents, or at the very least has not been well assisted by his parents.
Stories will abound about them being a lovely family with no apparent issues - they always are.

The murderer's final act is one of anger where they take their own life and their parents'.

It's a common struggle tbh - parents find it very difficult to compartmentalise feelings about their children and accept when things are not "normal" and outside assistance is required. Instead they try to "fix" it themselves. In the case of a mentally ill person, this may lead to direct conflict between the parent and child and a breakdown in the relationship.
After years of the parents trying to "do what's right" for their child, they've accidentally become a pseudo prison officer in their own home and the mentally ill child's condition has continually worsened without professional help. To the point where things like this happen.

I doubt it is just an Irish thing, though we are incredibly slow in this country to even dare suggest that a child may need help. Even nurses and doctors are very slow to say anything. A relative of my wife has a child who is on the spectrum, everyone's pretty sure of it. But no-one would even dare suggest they go get him assessed, lest the family get upset and stop talking to them.

When I first seen this story I thought it was another tragic incident like the two brothers in Dublin a few weeks ago, It is disgusting known these people died violently.

Bicky bicky wrote: »

It's reported it was the father!

I haven't seen that reported anywhere, what was reported?